Planted in Pain: Raised in Purpose

Through this story the reader learns that her father was a deeply angry and controlling man whose presence filled their home with tension and fear. The author's mother lived under constant pressure to maintain perfection, waking before dawn each day to prepare meals and keep the house spotless in order to avoid punishment. The home that should have been a place of safety became a place of terror. Despite the relentless fear and physical violence, the mother endured, cleaning, preparing, and trying to survive another day.